Wassermann ‎– Fackeln Im Sturm

Killer abstracted techno 12" from German polymath Wolfgang Voigt under his lesser spotted Wassermann alias. Originally dropped on his buy-on-sight imprint Profan in '96, Voigt flaunts his typically minimalistic style, taking hints from the emergent glitch styles of the time, later-date Chain Reaction to the harsher end of German techno in the 90's to craft a sound that is repetitive, fragment and hypnotic. The rough edges and smothered kicks pre-date what u might call 'lo-fi' techno by a good 15 years (whilst most of those producers we're still in nappies), and despite being very quite uncompromising its easy to get sucked into this 1.